THREEPEAT! THE NEW YORK JUNK YARD DOGS WIN SEASON 24 MLD CUP and become the first team in MLD HISTORY to win three straight cups.
The NY Daily News has the exclusive interview with GM and Head Coach John (3peat) Corbett:

Daily News: Coach tell us how it feels to be the first team in MLD history to win three straight cups?

Coach JC: Wow it is hard to imagine that this team and franchise has accomplished this feat. After coaching for 21 straight seasons in the MLD and making it to the finals just twice (losing both to Maricopa) the fans were extremel;y frustrated and were calling for my head. After enduring three straight seasons of missing the playoffs we relied on the draft to rebuild this team. I am the most active GM when it comes to trading players in this league but I knew we would need some cornerstones to build around. We did that and it paid off huge the celebration is still ongoing in NY and there is a parade down the Canyon of Heroes scheduled for tomorrow. Players from all three cups will be on hand for the celebration. I cannot describe how good I feel about the accomplishment

NY Daily News: Tell us about how the year played out for you and the Junk Yard Dogs?

Coach JC: Well the first 18 games we knew we had something special and we realized we had a very good chance of making a run at the threepeat, but we also wanted to consider the future, so we sent down 9 veteran players and then played 10-15 games and I noticed there wasn't a huge falloff. SO I put on my GM hat and went out and obtained 4 veteran players to help the new edition JYD while keeping 7 of the 9 veterans in the minors for next year. We had a JYD record year in wins and total points. We also tied 2 MLD records....................... of Most Points in a season -144, and least losses (7) by a team in a MLD season.

NY Daily News: Then the playoffs tell us about that?

Coach JC Well we started off the first round with a sweep of the Halifax Mooseheads, the Mooseheads have just recently undergone a change in ownership. The future looks bright for their franchise as WIS legend chuckinrip has taken over and I am sure will rebuild that franchise into a powerhouse, however they went down 4-0 to become the Dogs first playoff victim.

In the second round we played the always tough and scrappy Kingston Crooks, the Crooks who won the cup in season 13 are always a challenge as they have the mastermind of the MLD, OKP running the show. The Crooks are an up and coming team but they just didn't have the veteran firepower that we had and we again swept the series 4-0 ending it with a knockout punch a JYD playoff record 11-0 win...

There we were in the conference finals against a team we know all so well and we have a love/hate relationship with the Henderson Hornets. Their owner/coach Blee is a good friend, yet one of the toughest rivals he along with other owners Rammers and Drg330 make the Smythe division the toughest division in MLD year in and Year out. I find it amazing that I was able to tie the most points in a season record. As a division the Smythe has far and away the most cups in MLD history.
But I digress ..at the start of this series I was extremely nervous...the idea of making MLD history was getting closer but yet I had to face a team that on paper was just as good as mine ...if not better. During the season we had the Hornets number we had won 7 of the 9 meetings, but I am not sure how, these teams were so close in all aspects. The playoffs are always a different story so even though I had won 7 of 9 I was extremely worried.

Conference Finals- Game one We won a closely fought low shooting game. We took an early 3-0 lead and I felt good until Hornets legendary Defenseman Del Sippa scored to make it a 4-3 game with 2 and a half minutes to go, the Dogs sealed the victory when RW Jose Aunola (player of the game) scored the empty netter.

Game Two:
In Game 2 the Dogs had a commanding performance outshooting the Hornets 24-11. Toe Vuohiluoma was the first star of the game with 2 goals and 1 assist. With a 2 game lead the Dogs felt good but not overconfident, having to head back to Henderson for games 3 and 4.

Game Three: This is where the series got interesting, The Hornets owned this game from start to finish. They outshot the Dogs 23- 21 the closest the Dogs got was they closed the score 5-4 but the Hornets pulled away and won 7-4 Hornets D man Maximo Devo was player of the game with a hat trick and an assist, to finish the game with 4 points. Luke Manchester was in net for the Hornets a switch from games 1 and 2

Game Four: The Hornets went back to the 100/100 goalie they had acquired in an in-season trade Vesa Alasaari to start the game but he gave up 4 goals on 5 shots and the Hornets called on Luke Manchester to save the day ...which he did only giving up one goal on the next 20 shots and the Hornets put on the offense again as they scored 6 goals of their own and tied the series at 2 games apiece. The Dogs had outshot the Hornets 25-20 but the Hornets had again held serve and the series was tied going back to NY for game 5

I realized that Blee had made some changes after games 1 and 2 and that the Dogs were now having trouble with the Hornets I knew Game 5 was the biggest game of the series so I made some adjustments to my D settings and one forward line, I also decided to double shift 2 of my top 3 forwards in Lou Romola and Toe Vuohiluoma. I waited and hoped for the best, for the first time in the playoffs I could feel the threepeat slipping away.

Game 5: In game 5 the Hornets went with the goaltender that had won the 2 previous games in Luke Manchester and the game was a back and forth battle until about 5 minutes into the third period, with the score tied 3-3 Toe Vuohilouma and Lou Romola the 2 forwards I had double shifted erupted and their line scored 3 goals in six minutes and Toe got the hat trick. The Dogs never looked back and Des Renstrom started to get back to his Vezina winning form and the Dogs won 7-3. Since my settings change seemed to have worked I decided to stick with it, although I had to switch up some of the guys I had double shifted.

Game 6 : In Game 6 the Hornets went back to Vesa Alasaari in goal, the Dogs with their new settings won the clincher 7-4 with CJ Fallstrom the Dogs (Sidney Crosby Bonus player) third year veteran who was the Rookie of the year 2 years earlier and who was the Derek Jeter of the Dogs, was voted Player of the Game with 2 goals and 1 assist. CJ has only known winning since his arrival the Dogs have won the cup every year, and in this game he made sure that the Dogs would get that chance again as his performance sent the Dogs to the Finals with the 7-4 victory.

I was elated with the victory I had spent a lot of time reviewing the earlier matchups with the Hornets all that homework paid off in the changes I made after game 4. I was going to the finals but I was worried because the team I was facing was a lot like the team I had lost to twice in the finals, the Indianapolis Racers were the top rated defensive team in the league, we had split the 2 game season series with them, but I had a lot of doubt about winning the finals.

Game One: In game one of the finals we lost 3-2 in OT against the Racers. It was a low shooting affair considering the game went almost 4 periods. After the game I knew this series was going to be trouble but I decided to go with my usual settings for one more game to see how things went.

Game Two: Game 2 was much like Game 1 except that we won this one 4-3 again the game went to overtime and almost 4 periods of hockey. We had a few more shots but I had the feeling that going back to Indianapolis we would be in trouble, if I didn't make some changes. The Racers defensive style of hockey was something I was going to have to match if I was going to win this series. I had double shifted all my best players in this one some of my guys were in the 50's and 60's in stamina. I figured game three would be a loss so why not take a chance and try something new

Before game three I decided to try "Checking" on 2 of my 4 lines. I had only used this once before ...against the Icelandic Vikings in last years final although I only used it on one line against their top line it seemed to work pretty good, with the offensive firepower on this team I really never needed to be so defensive, but I felt that if I tried to stay so offensive I felt that the series would go 7 or I would lose it. Since my best players were so tired I figured this was the best time to take a shot.

Game Three Well with all that defensive settings I outshot the Racers 24-14 and won the Game 5-2. With all my stars exhausted Center Jim Raiha had the game of his career with 2 goals and an assist. He had a great rest of the series. Needless to say I never changed my settings after that and we didn't lose another game. Although the next two games were lower shooting and lower scoring the Dogs showed they could play defensive hockey with the best of them.

Game Four I am not sure what settings Smeric put on the Racers for Game 4 I am guessing he went even more defensive the Racers outshot the Dogs 14-10 but 10 shots would be all the Dogs needed as Des Renstrom showed his Vezina Trophy style and shut out the Racers 2-0

Game Five In the series finale Des Renstrom again shut down the Racers. We outshot them 17-13 and won the game 2-0. Des Renstrom was player of the game in both games 4 and 5. With back to back shutouts he has earned hinself the Franchise Player tag for next season as Lou Romola is forced to retire, although he sets a record that can never be broken. He won a title in all three seasons as the FP. Now that it is over it has been great to sit back and enjoy.

Most Wins in a Season by a goalie 63 Wins G- Des Renstrom
Most Points in a season- 144 tied League Record
Least number of losses in a season - 7 tied league record

PLAYERS RETIRING AFTER SEASON 24 LW Lou Romola retires after a great three year run as the Dogs Franchise Player in Seasons 22,23 and24. He won a cup in each of his three seasons. Lou was just an average LW until his 3 years as FP he really came to life averaging 80+ points each year.

[LW] Lou Romola

Type:

Fantasy Player

Season:

2011-12

Contract:

Professional

Salary:

1,749,736

Skill Ratings

Age

Stamina

Shooting

Skating

Toughness

Saving

Defense

18

89

100

100

1

-

100

Skill ratings range from 1 - 100; 1=Worst and 100=Best

Coach's Observations

(When this player's skills improve, your coach will add notes here)

Regular Season Statistics

GP

GLS

AST

PTS

PPG

SHG

GWG

+/-

PIM

S

S%

FW%

TOI

Season 9

6

2

0

2

0

0

1

3

0

7

28.6

0.0

1:21:34

Season 16

40

1

6

7

0

0

0

-7

0

59

1.7

0.0

9:18:13

Season 17

65

12

17

29

0

0

4

5

4

90

13.3

33.3

16:42:15

Season 18

74

9

8

17

0

0

2

-21

0

81

11.1

0.0

17:12:08

Season 19

77

17

15

32

0

1

2

-29

6

111

15.3

41.3

20:13:16

Season 20

82

18

24

42

2

0

3

-69

6

144

12.5

58.2

33:21:13

Season 21

69

6

13

19

1

3

0

5

2

32

18.8

63.0

6:08:49

Season 22

82

36

51

87

3

1

8

81

6

141

25.5

55.7

22:08:09

Season 23

80

32

57

89

1

0

4

76

0

164

19.5

67.9

22:32:25

Current Season

82

29

57

86

3

1

6

79

4

153

19.0

64.3

23:48:19

657

162

248

410

10

6

30

123

28

982

16.5

56.8

172:46:21

Playoff Statistics

GP

GLS

AST

PTS

PPG

SHG

GWG

+/-

PIM

S

S%

FW%

TOI

Season 22

19

3

9

12

0

0

2

11

2

18

16.7

63.6

5:11:56

Season 23

19

7

14

21

1

0

3

16

0

30

23.3

75.0

5:40:48

Current Season

19

7

15

22

0

0

1

11

2

33

21.2

75.0

6:33:20

57

17

38

55

1

0

6

38

4

81

21.0

69.6

17:26:04

RW Syd PeramakiSyd was aquired from the Yorkton Millers and he was a longtime vet he played well with the Dogs and won 2 cups with them.

[RW] Syd Peramaki

Type:

Fantasy Player

Season:

2011-12

Contract:

Professional

Salary:

1,035,347

Skill Ratings

Age

Stamina

Shooting

Skating

Toughness

Saving

Defense

17

94

100

100

1

-

100

Skill ratings range from 1 - 100; 1=Worst and 100=Best

Coach's Observations

(When this player's skills improve, your coach will add notes here)

Regular Season Statistics

GP

GLS

AST

PTS

PPG

SHG

GWG

+/-

PIM

S

S%

FW%

TOI

Previous Team

11

0

0

0

0

0

0

-2

2

11

0.0

48.0

2:25:46

Previous Team

19

1

6

7

0

0

0

-6

2

32

3.1

50.0

4:18:29

Previous Team

6

3

3

6

0

0

0

-2

0

10

30.0

0.0

1:39:27

Previous Team

48

1

9

10

0

0

0

8

0

53

1.9

62.1

9:15:17

Previous Team

13

0

0

0

0

0

0

-3

0

17

0.0

45.8

2:50:25

Previous Team

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

-1

0

0

-

0.0

00:08:44

Previous Team

11

1

1

2

0

0

0

1

0

33

3.0

39.5

2:47:34

Previous Team

53

5

10

15

0

0

0

-6

0

84

6.0

62.5

11:32:39

Previous Team

72

5

21

26

0

0

0

2

4

137

3.6

58.8

17:54:27

Previous Team

16

0

0

0

0

0

0

-5

0

18

0.0

69.7

3:30:07

Previous Team

17

6

3

9

0

0

2

4

0

24

25.0

0.0

3:50:51

Previous Team

62

23

38

61

1

0

2

39

6

130

17.7

0.0

16:08:58

Previous Team

19

4

17

21

0

0

1

20

2

31

12.9

0.0

4:29:00

Previous Team

19

8

15

23

0

0

0

32

0

35

22.9

0.0

4:48:05

Previous Team

10

3

2

5

0

0

1

4

0

16

18.8

100.0

2:28:39

Previous Team

19

6

6

12

1

0

1

4

0

34

17.6

50.0

4:49:37

Previous Team

18

4

9

13

1

2

0

-11

0

36

11.1

0.0

5:18:27

Season 22

45

10

18

28

0

1

4

19

2

69

14.5

0.0

12:14:51

Season 23

17

8

4

12

0

0

1

13

0

26

30.8

0.0

3:58:38

Current Season

80

26

62

88

0

0

8

91

4

146

17.8

0.0

32:36:30

556

114

224

338

3

3

20

201

22

942

12.1

58.0

147:06:31

Playoff Statistics

GP

GLS

AST

PTS

PPG

SHG

GWG

+/-

PIM

S

S%

FW%

TOI

Previous Team

4

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

8

0.0

66.7

1:00:11

Previous Team

9

0

0

0

0

0

0

-1

2

16

0.0

61.3

1:59:11

Previous Team

9

1

1

2

0

0

0

1

0

5

20.0

0.0

2:00:12

Previous Team

18

2

6

8

0

0

0

-2

2

11

18.2

0.0

4:31:37

Previous Team

5

1

1

2

0

0

0

1

0

2

50.0

0.0

1:13:41

Previous Team

14

3

3

6

0

0

1

4

0

20

15.0

0.0

3:46:57

Previous Team

16

4

2

6

0

0

2

-3

0

18

22.2

0.0

4:14:02

Season 22

19

7

9

16

0

0

1

25

0

41

17.1

0.0

7:30:54

Current Season

19

7

9

16

0

0

0

22

0

35

20.0

0.0

7:15:22

113

25

32

57

0

0

4

47

4

156

16.0

62.5

33:32:07

D Archie Maikola Archie was an original Dog who won three cups in his six seasons. He was a defensive Dman

THE NY JUNK YARD DOGS WIN THE MLD CUP AGAIN IN SEASON 25.....THE 4th STRAIGHT CUP WIN ......THIS IS UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!

Coach and GM John Corbett talks again with the NY Daily News hockey reporter Larry Brooks in his column" Snapshot "

Larry Brooks: So coach, share with us your thoughts and memories of this historic season

Coach JC: Well Larry to win this thing again was an amazing experience, I feel as if I finally have figured out this sim, at least as far as the MLD is concerned. Obviously we had trouble with 2 teams during the season that being the Yorkton Millers and the Roswell Aliens both teams had our number during the regular season but we changed some of our line strategies and makeup for the playoffs and we had success against both those teams in this playoff run which made winning the title much harder but also much more rewarding.

Larry Brooks: What were you thinking knowing you had to open the playoffs on the road as the number 5 seed in the conference?

Coach John Corbett: Well Larry this was only the second or third time in this great run I was worried, I mean the Millers had won the season series 4 games to 3, added to that anxiety was the fact that even if I somehow slipped by the Millers, I would have to face the Aliens who had beaten us evry game during the year, they were 7-0 against us and I really felt that I had tried all different things against the Aliens and none of them worked, but I am getting ahead of myself first we had to deal with the Millers a young squad who didn't have the veteren ratings we had but they had a GREAT season and had great chemistry amongst their line combos.

So we open Game 1 in Yorktonand we lose 3-0 it wasn't just that we were shut out that worried me but we were held to 5 SHOTS!!! I was beside myseld and this was probably the time when I most felt that the run of the JYD was over. 5 shots...what the heck was I supposed to do. I knew I had a better rated lineup so I had to figure what settings Dan was using and then match them and I SHOULD then win but who knows this SIM can be fickle. I decided that I would be more defensive with my forward lines and also less offensive with my D men so they could focus more on D.
Game 2
With those settings this was the first appearance of the Rhett Whippola,Ryan O'Brien and Curtis Schoon line were they surprised me and played a great game, although they were my third line they had a huge game, a little glimpse of things to come as I soon realized although they struggled in the regular season after 2 of them (Ryan O'Brien and Curtis Schoon) were aquired from the Henderson Hornets GM Blee they would soon be by far my best playoff line, matching up against the other teams best lines and almost always coming out on top. The ended the playoffs at +20. In Game 2 they combined for 2 goals and three assists.
we won the game 6-2 and outshot the Millers 23-17.

GAME 3
Obviously I knew the settings had been the difference and with the split on the road I could now get the line matchups I wanted.
In this game my top 2 lines dominated and we took a 3-0 lead in the first period and never looked back and won the game 5-2 and again outshot the Millers 20-12.

GAME 4
In game 4 Dan must of made some stratedgy changes and we won a very close game in OT 3-2. My second line did a great job and the Millers top line was a -3 we again outshot the Millers 22-13.

GAME 5
Back on their home ice the Millers played a more defensive battle and with the shots even at 13 apiece the Millers shut down the JYD train with a 2-1 win, while I again started getting a little nervous I knew I wanted to win Game 6 and not get to a game 7 where anything can happen. I decided to just use one D pair on Let forwards take most of the shots and all others on Rarely shoot, but to try to disguise it I didn't use Let forwards take most of the shots" with my 2 100 rated shooting D man I used my second best shooting pair for that. Not sure if that helped but we did win 4 out of 5 games that way.

GAME 6
Again a VERY close game whatever changes Dan made to his lineup, made the last 3 games VERY tight again we won in OT and we won the series with a 5-4 win. Again the shots on goal were nearly identical 18-17, this series really could have gone either way as you can see the last three games the teams were dead even, it was really winning game 2 and getting the split on the road that made the difference in this series.

Next with the Chilliwick Bruins upseting the team from Lyle we avoided the matchup I dreaded with Roswell at least for another round and we had another difficult team in the Anoka Tornados.

That series was ended with a quick 4-0 sweep and then we were onto the dreaded Aliens. The Aliens had totally owned us in the regular season, they were 7-0 against us in the regular season, a lot of times during the regular season I keep my settings the same, but in the last three against the Aliens I tried some different tactics but nothing worked. I figured I would have to completely change the way I approached the matchup, that and maybe some luck could get me some wins against the Aliens. I knew if I can win the first game maybe I could get Rammers to change his tactics and maybe thatr would be a positive for me. Either way I knew I had to have Game 1 to have a chance in this series. I put a lot of study into the preparation for this series more than I had ever done for any series matchup and it paid off BIG!

GAME 1
In game 1 we again set our second best shooting pair on "Let forwards take most of the shots" and I made sure that the Aliens best shooting pair was matched up with my pair that was "Rarely Shoot" in hopes that the D focus would make a difference all other lines were in a defensive mode. The game was a lot like the last few from the series with Dan as shots were 13-12 and we won Game 1 by a score of 3-1 but the third goal was an empty netter. I was just so happy that we had pulled of the upset in Game 1 I knew Rammers would make adjustments for game 2, so I decided to just switch up the one D pair in hopes that his changes would be counteracted.

GAME 2
This game was a dog fight no pun intended. We took the lead in the third period 2-1 with 9 minutes gone only to have the Aliens tie it up with 14 minutes gone. The game stayed tied and went to OT were we won it 14:28 into OT. We outshot the Aliens 22-15 but the game could have gone either way. The first 2 games were sooo close, I knew winning the first 2 gave me a huge advantage but when teams are this close a series can change on any game, there was no letting my guard down Rammers is a great coach and he will make smart changes I needed to try to guess what changes he would make and set my team so we were ready for them. A lot of managers would wait until they lose to make changes but not me I like to study an opponent and try to guess what he will do next.

GAME 3
Well so much for out guessing the opponent, the Aliens won Game 3 by a 3-2 score. I was encouraged by the fact that we outshot the Aliens18-12 I felt like you cannot expect a team that good to not win some of the games. I knew game 4 would tell the tale of this series, if I lost it was 2-2 and now the Aliens had the upper hand with momentum, if I won it would be a crushing blow to the Aliens chances.

Game 4
Having the home ice was key I could get the matchups I wanted. I had noticed in previous games Rammers had used his tough "Adams line" to match and follow my first line with good success. I decided to move my top line Rhett Whippola.Ryan O'Brien and Curtis Schoon to be my First line, I also had them match up with Rammers line 4 which was usually a line filled with top players who were double shifting I figured this would be a good matchup for me even if he got his top line matched against mine. As luck would have it Rammers switched the Adams line to matchup against my second line (I guess figuring I would change my lines too) and as it turned out my top line had a killer night all in the third period as the NY JYD scored 5 third period goals winning the game 6-3 the final goal an empty netter. We again outshot the Aliens 23-17. We were in control of the series, but it wasn't over.

Game 5
I knew that the Aliens having the home game here it would be very difficult to win it. We badly outshot the Aliens but their pride came through as they won in OT 3-2. The game was a close one, I was again happy that my team had outshot the Aliens especially such a huge difference. I felt like game 6 was ours.

GAME 6
Well here it was I needed this one. I could tell by Rammers lineup that he was trying to rest some of the guys he had been double shifting so they would be fresh for game 7, I had to take advantage of that. I put my best line in the second slot and had them Matchup if we were losing against his Line 1 but Rammers had his fourth line matchup against my third line. That was the differnce in this game as I put three of my best performers there and they ended up a plus 3 and we outshot the Aliens only 15-14 but it was enough as we won the game 5-2 the last goal was again an empty netter. It was on to the Finals. It was tough to stay focused as beating the Aliens felt like I had won it all especially after the way they dominated me in the regular season.
I really couldn't believe I had done it this series and the one with Dan were so close, I really felt the time I put into it had paid off.
At this point (and this is no disrespect to steveajolie) I felt there was no one who could stop me.The Finals

The Finals were never really in doubt there were 2 blowouts but the last three games were close as the Blizzard seemed to make some adjustments, they are a very good young team with a good coach and it wouldn't surprise me in the least to seem them back in the Finals in Season 26. We won the Cup in 5 games the last one (game 5) we won in double OT. I never thought 4 straight cups would be possible, especially in this new era when a player has to play 20+ games to be allowed in the playoffs. I feel I have really finally figured out this SIM. It is time to rebuild but the NY JYD will be back ....COUNT ON IT!